Resumen de On the equivalency between decision tree classifiers and the nearest neighbour rule

J. S. Sanchez, Filiberto Pla Bañón, Francesc Josep Ferri Rabasa

• This paper introduces a method for designing a binary tree structured classifier by using the decision boundaries associated to a reduced set of prototypes. The purpose of this technique consists of finding a classification scheme whose result will be equivalent to that produced by the Nearest Neighbour rule, but with the important advantage of being much faster in terms of classification time. Experiments on real and artificial data sets demonstrate that the design procedure consistently finds decision trees with that equivalency property.